The exit polls indicate a BJP lead.

A day ahead of the counting of votes in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Ram Gopal Yadav said that he was sure that his party would emerge victorious and that Akhilesh Yadav would become the state's chief minister for the second time.

Commenting on the exit polls that have projected the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the lead, Yadav said that according to the information available to him, the "original exit polls" had been changed by the television news channels under pressure.